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Drone “Painting” with LEDs

Watch a multirotor create a holiday lightshow! The AscTec Falcon 8 uses its proprietary Navigator software to fly complex lines through predefined waypoints. The technology behind this show is amazing, but we’re not embarrassed to admit that we’re mesmerized by the lights! Happy holidays, everyone.

S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier Homebuilt

The S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier is one of those things that used to only exist in comic books and movies — an aircraft carrier that also doubles as a quad-rotor airship! While it may be a bit (or more than a bit!) fanciful to suggest that a vessel weighing nearly 100,000 tons (about what a Nimitz-class carrier […]

Hobbico 12 Days of Drones Giveaway

Forget about a partridge in a pear tree, we know you really just want a drone for the holidays! Along with their green mascot “Proto,” the folks at Hobbico, your drone headquarters, are giving away a different drone each day for 12 days, starting on December 12. The prizes range from the super-tiny Proto-N to the super-tough Dromida UAV Vista, […]

FLIR Vue

With FLIR Vue™ you get all the thermal imager you need for sUAS operations without having to pay for functionality you’ll never use. Pre-configured to give you optimal imagery in a wide variety of conditions, FLIR Vue is light enough that it won’t throw off your center of gravity or impact your flight times. With […]

Albert Einstein Science Park in Potsdam from above

This German video was filmed around the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam, Germany, a historical site in the Brandenburg capital. Originally the hill was used for a semaphore (optical telegraph) system between Berlin and Koblenz. After the optical system was replaced with an electrical telegraph line, the location became the site for a telescope observatory, and various […]

RotorDrone Magazine Proudly Sponsored a Drone Expo in New Zealand!

RotorDrone Magazine Proudly Sponsored A Wairarapa Drone Pilots Drone Expo in New Zealand! With the rise in negative media regarding drones over the last few months the recently formed Facebook group Wairarapa Drone Pilots decided that they needed to be proactive in educating the local public on the new regulations as well as showing them […]

RotorDrone Magazine Nov/Dec issue

A Rapidly Expanding Universe The universe is rapidly extending at a phenomenal rate, so fast and big that it is incomprehensible for many people to grasp, myself included. I feel the same way when I look at how fast the drone market is expanding. This is evident when I go to a drone expo such […]

Paint the Sky – Behind the Scenes with Aerobo

Our friends at Aerobo (formerly AeroCine) just posted some behind the scenes footage of one of their latest projects–the precision flying and videography for a bit of performance art called “Paint the Sky” where they used colored smoke canisters strapped to drones in the strong winds off the Jersey Shore to make a striking visual […]

GoPro Lens Fast Fix

Scratched lens on your GoPro? No worries; it’s an easy fix when you know how. Get the scoop from RotorDrone contributor William Levasseur.

Drones and Smart Construction

RotorDrone is a proud sponsor of Sky Tech 2016! Drones and Smart Construction Sometimes the perfect solution to time-honoured problems is hovering under our very noses. In the case of drones, this philosophy can be entirely literal. UAV technology is on the cutting edge of the consumer market – however, UAVs have greater potential […]